Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Taylor, Sid

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]